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In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer alan lightman chronicles twentyfour great discoveries of twentiethcentury scienceeverything from the theory of relativity to mapping the structure of dna. Einsteins dreams is a 1992 novel by alan lightman that was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. See all books authored by alan lightman, including einsteins dreams, and the accidental universe. He has served on the faculties of harvard and massachusetts institute of technology mit. With passion and curiosity, alan lightman explores the emotional and philosophical questions raised by recent discoveries in science. Fabrication of novel quantum structures by molecular beam. Alan lightman might be the only writer who can dance through not just one but seven universes in a book not much larger than a human hand. Science and the human spirit by alan lightman 20060103 by alan. Alan lightman institute for cross disciplinary engagement at. Bill chalmers is an eager and, as far as he knows, happy participant in what was once quaintly called the rat race but now, with the infusion of information from cell phones, computers, etc. We discuss his new novel ghost, published by pantheon books.

Alan lightman has done fundamental research in astrophysics, including black holes, cosmology, and radiation processes. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Lightman is the author of five novels, two collections of essays, a booklength narrative poem and several books on science. Alan lightman takes a comfortable professor back to a disturbing encounter with his student self in reunion laura baggaley sat 9 aug 2003 20. Author and theoretical physicist alan lightman offers a collection of essays that explore the connections between religion, science, truth and. The power of mysteries childhood curiosity fueled alan lightmans interest in science and space. In a culture where pigeonholing is everything, alan lightman has one of the most enviable market niches. Lightmans novel the diagnosis was a finalist for the national book award. It is one of the most widely used common books on college campuses.

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Kacey kowars interviews alan lightman on his novel ghost. An unparalleled experience of wonder, beauty and inspiration, alan lightmans brief novel, einsteins dreams, is a prose poem of fractal variations on what would become the great scientists theory of relativity, each chapter a fantasy of posited possibility of the infinite nature of time itself. Alan lightman surprisingly, many experience exactly this in the corona crisis. Lightmans novel the diagnosis was a finalist for the 2000 national book award in fiction, a selection of. I guess you could say this story started around the year 2000, lightman says. Science needs its poets, and alan lightman is the perfect amalgam of scientist and humanist and his latest book, searching for stars on an island in maine, is.